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CARSON CITY, NEV. — O.J. Simpson went before a parole board and pleaded for leniency on his
armed-robbery and kidnapping sentence yesterday as he expressed regret for his actions and
described being an upstanding inmate who earns pennies an hour keeping gym equipment sanitized and
umpiring and coaching games in the prison yard.

Simpson also said he has become a counselor of sorts to fellow inmates doing time for similar
crimes and noted that he has made amends with his victims in a botched heist of memorabilia in a
hotel room in Las Vegas in 2007.

“I just wish I never went to that room,” Simpson, 66, said during the hearing.

Parole officials did not immediately rule on his request. However, their decision, expected next
week, will have little impact on his overall sentence.

“The difference between all of their crimes and mine is, they were trying to steal other people’s
property,” he said.

“My crime was trying to retrieve for my family my own property,” he said, mentioning how he has
missed his children, graduations and his sister’s funeral.